Siouxsie & The Banshees
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Siouxsie And The Banshees: The Unacceptable Face Of '78
Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, 24 June 1978
'Overground – from abnormalityOverboard – for identityOverground – for normalityOverboard – on identity'– 'Overground' ...
10 Questions for Siouxsie Sioux
Interview by Martin Aston, MOJO, September 1998
Is it true that you split the Banshees because the Sex Pistols reformed? ...
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Siouxsie & The Banshees (1978)
Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages Audio, 30 October 1978
Messrs Severin, Morris, McKay and Soux slag off their contemporaries, whinge about their record company, dismiss half their fans and generally have a good old moan.
File format: mp3; file size: 14.7mb, interview length: 16' 05" sound quality: *****
Siouxsie & The Banshees (1986)
Interview by Martin Aston, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1986
Aston and other journos quiz the Banshees about visiting Pompeii and writing 'Cities in Dust'; the album Tinderbox, and taking so long to record it; not looking back, and the myth of Sid Vicious; not having a grand plan; their audience, and keeping their distance from it; the importance of playing live; Siouxsie's look, and influence on young women; the movie Out of Bounds; being on Geffen, and their run-in with Bob Ezrin.
File format: mp3; file size: 43mb, interview length: 44' 50" sound quality: ***
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Report by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 2 October 1976
THE 600-STRONG line, which last Monday straggled across two blocks outside London's 100 Club in Oxford Street, waiting for the Punk Rock Festival to start, ...
The (?) Rock Special (#2): The Audience
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976
"I didn't even know the Summer of Love was happening. I was too busy playing with my Action Man."— Sid Vicious ...
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion, 1977
"I want more bands like us. I want people to go out and start something, to see us and start something, or else I'm just ...
The 100 Club Punk Rock Festival
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977
Monday, September 20th: The Sex Pistols, the Clash, Subway Sect, Siouxsie and the Banshees. Tuesday, September 21st: The Damned, Chris Spedding and the Vibrators, the ...
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 12 March 1977
Run with the pack as ace reporter Joe Varnish checks out Iggy Pop, The Heartbreakers, Cherry Vanilla, Wayne County and one or two local boys ...
Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Rings: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Jane Suck, Sounds, 28 May 1977
Getting those (Chinese) rocks off ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
Profile by Jane Suck, Sounds, 25 June 1977
Outrage is the game, Siouxsie and the Banshees is the name ...
Siouxsie And The Banshees: Vortex, London
Live Review by Jane Suck, Sounds, 3 September 1977
"I DON'T know what it is, but it isn't rock 'n' roll." The Banshees quote Glen Matlock's response to their last Vortex gig with pride. ...
Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers: Thunders and Lightning
Report by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 29 October 1977
BARRY CAIN gets struck down by the crazy past and present of THE HEARTBREAKERS ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees, Adam & the Ants: Vortex, London
Live Review by Jane Suck, Record Mirror, 5 November 1977
"WE ARE not human..." Support band The Ants are bizarre. More at home on Mars than the bondage mag they look like they just fell ...
Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Siouxsie & The Banshees: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 26 November 1977
THERE IS something about the Music Machine in Camden Town that severely dulls one's capacity for enjoyment of an evening of live rock. ...
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 3 December 1977
PREMISE: Record company executives have been skipping the brandy on their expense account lunches in their eagerness to sign up any band that can loosely ...
Siouxsie and the Banshees: A World Domination By 1984 Special
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 14 January 1978
This is Siouxsie and the Banshees/They are patient/They will win/In the end. ...
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 13 May 1978
SWEET SIOUXSIE and her boys in black play loud, angular, claustrophobic. Batter batter into submission: make you want to do bad things... ...
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1978
"I CAN'T WAIT to get into Polydor and run wild 'round the secretaries and throw all their typewriting paper and get their ribbons twisted. They ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Banshees Make The Breakthrough: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 29 July 1978
IF PUNKS ARE currently being brushed off by "official sources" as a speedily-becoming-extinct species, why then is it damn near impossible to find a comfortable ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Bansheed! What's In An Image?
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 26 August 1978
JOHN MCKAY, the Banshees' guitarist, has a pale, ashen look constantly playing about his features and talks in measured, serious tones. ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: The Scream
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 14 October 1978
NO MATTER what anyone may say or think, the success of 'Hong Kong Garden' was neither predicted nor predictable. Despite its obvious instantness (primarily, of ...
Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Scream
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1978
FIRST DAY I got it I stunned a full room with this magnificent record...and you should have seen me three hours and four more plays ...
Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Most Elitist Band In The World
Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 25 November 1978
'A gig is often an exaggeration of what we feel every day and therefore it can probably seem a bit ridiculous at times maybe. It ...
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1978
AND YOU ALL thought, or have been led to believe, that Siouxsie and the Banshees were nothing but grim-faced, black-clad warriors of doom and disorder, ...
In Defense of Siouxsie and the Banshees
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 23 December 1978
"Have a competition in the NME. In less than a hundred words, what do they get out of Siouxsie and the Banshees?" (Siouxsie Sioux) ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: The Giraffe Looked At Siouxsie
Report by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 17 February 1979
"WHAT DO you think of it, then?" sneered Siouxsie Sioux as we slipped into the Kurfurstendamm, Berlin's notorious main strip, which is like Oxford Street ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: (Stair) Case History
Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 7 April 1979
BUSHELL'S BRIEF BANSHEES BANTER ...
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1979
IT WAS OUR party... the day ZigZag came OUT. An erratic monthly "fanzine" (not owned by IPC or any other gardening clubs) celebrated ten years ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: The Scream (Polydor)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1979
SIOUXSIE OF the Banshees was a tantalizing pledge of the coming New Wave Millennium, when her photo began appearing in U.S. fanzines in early 1977. ...
Siouxsie And The Banshees: Join Hands
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 1 September 1979
WHADDA YA MEAN, is it extreme? Can you honestly imagine the Banshees doing anything —whether it be throwing shapes for a camera, getting dressed for ...
Siouxsie And The Banshees: Join Hands (Polydor)
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 1 September 1979
(IT'S MY party and) I'll mystify if I want to! ...
The Slits: Cut (Island); Siouxsie & The Banshees: Join Hands (Polydor)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 1 September 1979
AS THE Slits sing-song: don't take it seriously. ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: "They said they couldn't take the pressure"
Interview by Ronnie Gurr, Record Mirror, 15 September 1979
Siouxsie and the Banshees split. RONNIE GURR was on the spot ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: In Aberdeen...No-one Can Hear You Scream
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 15 September 1979
THE GEEZER standing next to me in the urinal said "Hey, have you heard the rumour? Two of the Banshees have run off. They're not ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Night Of The Long Knives
Report by Kris Needs, New Musical Express, 22 September 1979
IT'S IRONIC that Siouxsie and the Banshees' latest album bears the title Join Hands when half the group just ran away two dates into their ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: There Was I Waiting At The Church
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 22 September 1979
NICK KENT feels the wrath of Siouxsie Sioux and Steve Severin ...
"Humourless? Us?" - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 29 September 1979
"...Thy Kingdom come / They will be done / In Earth as it is in Heaven / Amen... Knock, knocking on Heaven’s door / Let ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: De Montfort Hall, Leicester
Live Review by Kris Needs, New Musical Express, 29 September 1979
"HOPE YOU like the new band." ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie And The Bitter Pill
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 23 February 1980
Siouxsie isn't just concerned about being a rock musician, she has strong feelings on other matters as well. Interview by ROSALIND RUSSELL ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Haul Of Mirrors
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, May 1980
SIOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES MAY CALL THEIR NEW LP KALEIDOSCOPE, REFLECTING THEIR NEW, MULTI-FACETTED STRENGTH. HERE THEY TALK ABOUT THE NEW SONGS AND PLANS... ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: Kaleidoscope (Polydor 2442 177)
Review by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 26 July 1980
Siouxsie at the sharp end ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Kaleidoscope (Polydor)
Review by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 26 July 1980
STRANGE TO think that, as the Banshees' contemporaries head off for the fourth or even fifth time in the studio, Kaleidoscope marks only the third ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: In From The Cold
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 2 August 1980
ROSALIND RUSSELL INTERVIEWS; SIOUXSIE AND STEVE SEVERIN WARM UP ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980
The squalor show goes on ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: Siouxp
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 8 November 1980
ROCK'S FAVOURITE SITUATION COMEDY RETURNS TO YOUR PAGES AND STAGES. SCRIPT: PAUL MORLEY ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees, Comsat Angels: Hammersmith Palais, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 28 February 1981
SIOUXSIE AND The Banshees are now one of the great British bands. There is no way to conceive just how radically they have been transformed ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: Juju (Polydor POLD 1034)
Review by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 20 June 1981
Single file Siouxsie ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Juju ****1/2
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 27 June 1981
WITHOUT WISHING to sound demeaning or sexist, I have observed that the most popular women in the r'n'r world are fond of playing character-roles within ...
Siouxsie and the Banshees: A Kiss In The Dreamhouse (Polydor)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, unpublished, 1982
WITHIN STRAIGHT-LACED Vienna at the turn of the century, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were producing graphic works which rebelled against the dying vestiges of ...
Siouxsie and the Banshees: A Kiss in The Dreamhouse (Polydor)
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 6 November 1982
IT'S RARE for a group to make their fourth LP and still be provocative, still be interested in themselves, let alone break any substantially new ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees, Fad Gadget: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 8 October 1983
YOU MAY BE A NIHILIST BUT YOU AIN'T NO F*@!KIN' ...
The Birthday Party: Mutiny! (Mute 29); Siouxsie & the Banshees: Nocturne (Polydor Shah 1)
Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 26 November 1983
TO HELL AND BACK ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Hyaena (Wonderland/Polydor)
Review by Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 4 August 1984
THE NIGHT Siouxsie wore her hyaena suit and made mischief of one kind and another God called her "Wild Thing!" and she threatened to engulf ...
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Hyaena
Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, November 1984
ONCE UPON a time, they might've burned Siouxsie Sioux at the stake or thrown her in a lake to see if she'd float with rocks ...
Overview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, January 1986
TO PUT EVERYTHING INTO PERSPECTIVE, AS TO WHERE THE ORIGINALS FROM '76 HAVE GONE; BE IT A WAYSIDE DITCH OR A MAJOR RECORD COMPANY WATER ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, January 1986
LAST MONTH WE CAUGHT SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES FIGHTING INJURY AND BOUNCERS IN NOTTINGHAM AND SET THE SCENE FOR THIS INTERVIEW, WHICH HAD TO BE ...
Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Howling
Retrospective by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 22 February 1986
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES: "a great whirlpool of noise, pulling the future down." Many moons later DON WATSON recalls the dawn of the great Sioux ...
Siouxsie Sioux: "I rarely delve into anything… I usually have a head-on collision with it"
Interview by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 15 March 1986
THE ELEGANT tea rooms at Fortnum And Mason's in London's Piccadilly may not seem like an obvious location for a meeting with someone as gloriously ...
Siouxsie and The Banshees: How Many LPs Is It Now? "Fifteen, Love."
Interview by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 19 April 1986
Have SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES successfully lobbed another one over the net or are they finally out of deuce? DAVID QUANTICK engages in a love ...
A Match, a Flame, a Banshee Howls
Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, October 1986
THIS MUST BE the sort of effect Cleopatra had on a room full of admirers; whatever one says is probably not enough. Siouxsie Sioux, the ...
Siouxsie And The Banshees/The Fall/Wire: Finsbury Park, London
Live Review by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 1 August 1987
AND DARKNESS fell over all the earth. Well, only a teensyweensy bit of it actually, but it turned into the arse-end of Pandemonium. A plethora ...
Exit The '80s — Goth: Bats Out Of Hell
Overview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 23 September 1989
It's been the decade of the goth — but, somewhere along the line, the innovation of the Birthday Party, the Banshees and the Sisters gave ...
Siouxsie Sioux: Mellowing of a Banshee
Interview by Lucy O'Brien, The Guardian, 25 October 1989
Lucy O'Brien on Siouxsie Sioux's new Creature comforts and lasting spirit ...
Interview by Jon Wilde, Blitz, July 1991
The pvc bra, the swastika armband and the scary hairdo are history. Siouxsie Sioux is back with a new album and a new image for ...
Suede: The Grand, Clapham, London
Live Review by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 24 July 1993
THERE'S A JARMAN... WAITING IN THE WINGS ...
Siouxsie and the Banshees: A Kiss in the DreamHouse
Book Excerpt by Lucy O'Brien, 'Love is the Drug' (Penguin), 1994
ALTHOUGH SHE'D been one of punk's founding fathers, as it were, Siouxsie Sioux never really looked like she could last the distance. She's still here ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: The Rapture
Review by Susan Compo, MOJO, February 1995
A FEW SPEED BUMPS DOWN THE TIMELINE OF rock, past the new wave of new wave and the return of baggy, and it seems the ...
Siouxsie And The Banshees: The Shriek's Back
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, April 1995
SIOUXSIE'S PISSED. Eight hours into another day of interviews, several dozen stories up Geffen's New York headquarters, and she can't have a cigarette. People say ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, July 1995
Summer, 1976. Punk, live punk, is about to explode in the capital. Tap rooms, Poly bars and sweaty clubs will host its unwashed greats. Johnny Black looks ...
Interview by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, August 1999
SIOUXSIE AND THE Banshees have carried the can for all manner of goth-related crimes, from walking-corpse fashions to minor chord musical misanthropy. It's a wonder ...
Interview by Paul Mathur, This is not Retro, May 2002
I GUESS THE OBVIOUS QUESTION IS WHY ARE THE BANSHEES BACK, AND HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT? ...
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 13 July 2002
IN 1975, POP'S womankind was still meekly 'Loving You' (it's easy, cos you're beautiful) and 'Standing By Your Man' (and showing the world you love ...
Back in Black: The Goth Revival
Report and Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 29 September 2006
THE FAVERSHAM, a pub close to Leeds University, is a brightly decorated bar, popular with lawyers and office workers. But a couple of decades ago ...
Siouxsie to Ana Matronic: 'I Get The Voodoo Thing. My Dad Milked Snakes'
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 7 September 2007
Scissor Sister Ana Matronic idolises Siouxsie – so we brought the two together to discuss punks, parents and the male ego. By Caroline Sullivan ...
20 Minutes To 20 Years: The Banshees' Tale
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Record Collector, November 2007
As editor of legendary fanzine Zigzag, Kris Needs had a front row seat for the explosive rise of Siouxsie & the Banshees. ...
The Making of 'Hong Kong Garden'
Retrospective and Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, May 2008
The oddly light debut smash that shoved punk's dark primitives out of the shadows ...
see also Armoury Show, The
see also Big In Japan
see also Creatures, The
see also Siouxsie
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